Fastener for paint-cans.



PATENTED AUG. 21, 1906.

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FSTENEFI FOR PINT-CNS.

Speoification o Letter: Patent.

Patented Aug. 21, 1906.

Application file September 12, 1902. Serial No. 123.200.

To ali whom, it ntrty conccrn:

Be it known that I, JENs OLsEN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fasteners for Paint-Cane, of Which the following is a specification.

My invention is especially designed for ren dering safe the transporting and carrying about paint and oils, but may be also conveniently used for other liquids.

My invention has for its object to obtain a can ofiinexpensive structure; means by which the cover maybe securely fastened on the body of the can, so that the latter may be carried about and shipped without apprehension of its contents escaping from under its cover and spilling over its sides.

The construction of myinvention is as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, hereby referred to as a part of this specification, the reference characters in which designate,the parts described.

In such lrawings, Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section. Fig. 2 is a top view of the can with cover removed. Fig. 3 is a partial longitudinal section showing the flange-like edges c of the protrnding center @2 of the cover as sloped instead of perpendicular, so as to be able to draw the cover tightly on the rim of the can. Fig. 4 is an elevation of one side of my can with its cover secured in place; and F ig. 5 is a partial perspective view of my can and cover, the last two figures illustrating more clearly the construction and operation of the locking-bails (l.

The body of my can consists of an outer casing of wood o, having an interior metal lining a'. Near the top on the exterior of the two sides are provided projecting cleats or strips b b, having apertures c through which to insert the open or loop ends of the bails d, fastened to two sides of the cover. The cleats or strips b b are also 'convenient at times for lifting the can when filled and heavy. The cover e is made of wood and the body-surface thercof at its four edges or sidcs is recessed or rabbcted to leave flange-like edges and a protruding middle portion e, Iitting into the opening of the can. The surfaces 63 may be perpendicular or sloped, as shown in Fig. 3. The latter construction has special advantage in this, that it adapts the cover to be drawn tightly down on the rim of the can, in so doing effecting a tight closure and insuring the liqnid contents of can will not be spilt in transportation. On top ofthe cover is provided a handle or carrying-bail g, and to two opposite sides of the cover are attached by staples gl the locking-bails d. The construction of the latter is more clearly seen in Fig. 5. Such locking-bails are made of Wire twisted and bent, as shown, and so that the upper parts of these locking-bails will lie flat upon the edges of the cover and the open or loop extremity thereof he turned at a right angle, so as to be inscrted in the aper tures c of the clcats or strips b b in position to receive the wedgesf, which are made with tapering lower cdges. By driving in the latter the cover is drawn down tight and secured. Staples might be used in place of the cleats or strips b b; but they would not be as serviceable. I prefer the dcscribed construction of my locking-bails d, because the arrangenient thereof makes thcnl stronger and more durable in service. The projecting cleats or strips have a special object. The wedges boing insertcd under such cleats or strips, they are covered by the latter and protected from being knocked against and loosened while in transportation.

When my can filled with point is to be shipped any distance, the crevice between the rim of the can and the bottom of the cover may be rendered absolutely tight by spreading on such riin a layer of putty. which a painter always has handy, and then securing the cover in the way dcscribcd.

Having fully described m v invention, now what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, ish

In a portable can for liquids, the combination with the body and the cover, of a fastening comprising horizontally-projccting cleats or strips on the exterior of opposite sidcs of the body and made with vertical apcrtures, loclring-bails fastened to the cover, and adapted to be insertcd through the apcrturcs of the cleats and to externi below the latter;

the ends of said hails being provided With f In testimony Whereof 1 have hereunto afloops arrzmged to pro1eot at right angles from hxed my signature, 111 the presenoe of two io the sides of the body, and taperng Wedges witnesses, this 15th day of August, 1901.

inserted under the eieats in said io'op ends of E JFN OIBFN the hails, to force and hold the cover down on the rim of the body, the projecting sills also W'itnesses:

serving to protect the Wedges inserted under T. J. GEISLER,

them against aecidental displaeement. E. M. HOWALTON. 

